Wakayama JALT:

Web-logs (Blogs) for the language classroom: a Workshop

Date: Friday, June 20th, 2008
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Marlen Harrison

Description:
This highly interactive, hands-on workshop will introduce the "blog" and examine how it may be used in the language classroom as a transformative writing genre that aids community development and student expression. Participants will create their own blogs and critically examine technology use in education.

ELT means English Language Teaching. The ELT Calendar contains information about conferences, conventions, workshops, presentations and other events of professional interest to teachers of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Japan, and the research communities of SLA (Second Language Acquisition), TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foriegn Language) and others relevant to language learning and teaching English in Japan.